by
Jewish organizations and supporters of former President Donald Trump are expressing outrage about a dinner he shared with two prominent antisemites last week.
The dinner happened on Nov. 22 at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. at the request of disgraced rapper Kanye “Ye” West, who has come under fire for openly antisemitic statements on social media and conspiratorial antisemitic views in multiple interviews. More outrageous than even the meeting with West was that West brought along 24-year-old white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who is known for statements denying the Holocaust, hating Jews, and leading white nationalist movements.
Enjoy what you're reading? Subscribe for more!
Conflicting accounts of the dinner appeared from Trump, Ye, and Fuentes, with Ye claiming that Trump was very impressed by Fuentes, while Trump said in a statement that he did not know who Fuentes was during their dinner but stopped short of condemning him.
Another controversial figure who joined the dinner, and who is believed to have invited Fuentes, was alt-right personality Milo Yiannopoulos.
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), which represents 2,000 Orthodox rabbis, also called for Trump to repudiate his dining companions.
“A former president does not enjoy the luxury of meeting over dinner with any oddball, especially when that fool is a self-declared hater,” CJV Vice President Rabbi Dov Fischer said in a statement. “It was wrong for former President Obama to affiliate with [his former longtime pastor] the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan. It is wrong for President Biden to praise Jew-hater Rashida Tlaib and fail to exert his leadership to rein in the Jew-hatred of Ilhan Omar. And it is wrong when President Trump breaks bread with such individuals.”
See the full article in the
Photo Credit: Wally Gobetz on Flickr